Paritka came in bringing the body of a hare for trade and Mac has been using him in work at Eskimo vocabulary. The smiling, pleasant old man is a welcome visitor but we are not in need of fresh meat just now though we have to buy in order not to discourage the bringing in of the stuff. 25 September. Monday. 8a. 20.6°; 12m. 21.5°; 4p. 22°; 8p. 24°; 12p. 26°, min 17.1° O, N. 2.3; O, N. 2.2; S, N. 3; S, N. 3; O, O max 26° This morning went to cairn on top of the Monet's Hill with Mac to see thermometers which he put there a week ago. min. 8.9° Max 34°. His aneroid read 1000 feet; mine 1025 ft. Open water west and south, but outlook was stormy. Moderate breeze blowing out of Foreke Fjord, but flat calm beyond the islands in bay where Hayes winter- ed in 1860-61. Top of hill is formed of old diabase cap 30-40 ft thick, a sill now lying on quartzite of Huronian age. Noted excel- lent solution forms of gravel and boulders. Collected some specimens, see Geol. Note Bk. No. 2. Flock of ducks came into our camp this evening and Paritka got one. Put box 78 out with other foxskin boxes. 26 September. Tuesday. 8a. 29.2°; 12m. 28.5°; 4p. 28.0°; 8p. 28°; 12p. 27.9° max 30° C, S. W. 3-4; C, S. 4; C, S. 4; O, S. 5; 12p. S. 5.4 min 28.4° Rather stormy, disagreeable day, looking very bad out in the Sound. The southerly wind has driven a small amount of ice including some little bergs. If the latter stay here our water problem will be well solved and just in time too, for to-day Captain Cover scooped up the last of the water in the hollow in the rocks of the gorge